I remember a true incident filmatized about the Holocaust.
It was of an elderly Jew who had great dignity, character and standing for his services who was forced to wear a yellow David’s star mark and with a drum hanging on his neck at his front, he was forced to beat at the drum as a signal of public shaming.
Here we had an example of horrendous discrimination – not just against a Jew, but against an Elderly, who had served whole his life serving the community.
During Nazism, all who were disabled or ill could be considered for murderous Eutanasia.
I have a long history of dubbing new words such as Islamophobia ( during the hate crimes and genocide against the MIXED Bosnian society ) . Yankeephobia or Ameriphobia were others – and yet GERIAPHOBIA or GERIPHOBIA is a favorite I interoduced years ago.
A Danish ultranationalist extremist politian Glistrup wanted to remove laws that protect against discrimination, vilification, and denigration of special groups. He claimed it was contrary to the ‘freedom of speech’ – which in Danish is termed by freedom of utterance ( in contrast to way of expression or freedom of conscience ).
I wrote to parliament and underlined that freedoms can be only maintained by ensuring responsibility and respect of others, as those laws in essence are to protect ANY form of vilification or demeaning, as GERIAPHOBIA when one may say ‘remove that old man ! ‘ Such an expression is sign of inhumanity.
In the work place, an employer can request someone who can carry coal up a mine shaft, and lift certain machinery, while others can be required to help with meticulous planning and can be subjected to tests where human life can be at play.
It is utterly inhumane to carry out lynch populism and persecution against an eldery in unchartered tasks, specially when an applicant has proven proficiency and capable of working ‘in tandem’ with others. The newer Handicap Conventions even go further to help raise dignity of the disabled so that they can be full fledged members of society.
I have looked into research that proved that hard drugs and unhealthy habits of very young people using crack coke and Ice’ ( – and EVEN certain medications as Paxil ) , can cause damage by causing erroneous replication of DNA strands !
My inference is that DNA damage due to hard drugs condoning, chemicals and bad lifestyle, was FAR WORSE than DNA errors found in healthy aging persons, men, who could have healthy children in later life. The Prophet Abraham was of a very high age when he had his first children, and even more later …. forefathers to great people !
Therefore, good striving people must be allowed to have children, so their lifestruggles be rewarded and defended, while I am frustrated over the lack of campaign attention over the abuse of hard drugs that were the core of Usama bin Ladin’s fundraising in Afghanistan – AND other Jihadists who were often drugged before suicide operations. Today unfortunately, hard drugs are rendering the US economy bancrupt from the INSIDE, as children’s future are jeapardized and destroyed by hard drugs. These have lead to most horrific crimes of all kinds, and unfathomable vast damages to National and World economy !!
I hope these themes could have been discussed during Presidential debates, for they are urgent non-political realities needing to be dealt with.
Elderly need greatest respect be helped towards lifequality, specially those who have a zeal to serve !
In parts of Europe, medicinal control agencies try to forbid simple supplements such as Melatonin, that are invaluable for elderly with parkinsonims, eye problems etc etc.
They even push the elderly into hospice-like homes, and give them strong drugs.
We must all respect and remember great men and women as Helen Keller, President Roosvelt, ( President Teddy Roosvelt ) who statuated respect and dignity, and President Ronald Reagan whose age experience helped break the ice with Soviet President Gorbachev, and removed the Iron curtain !! – for without them, where would we be today ?????????
